April 29, 2024

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The Smithsonian Will Restore Hundreds of the World’s Oldest Sound Recordings

Smithsonian Magazine

By Molly Enking

Daily Correspondent

Until about ten years ago, nobody knew what Alexander Graham Bell sounded like. But a breakthrough came in 2013, when Smithsonian researchers recovered a previously “unplayable” recording of the scientist on a wax-and-cardboard disc. 

“Hear my voice,” Bell declared. For the first time since his death in 1922, the world could finally listen to his words.

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